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[melb] burning sleepers at North Melbourne
- Subject: [melb] burning sleepers at North Melbourne
- From: pshute@melbpc.org.au
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 20:12:26 +1100
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Melbourne PC User Group
- Xref: bclass.spectrum.com.au aus.rail:26865
I regularly see smouldering sleepers while I wait for my train at
North Melbourne. I can see that many sleepers have old burn marks,
and that some are burnt very deeply.
What causes these fires? Cigarettes or something hot dropping off a
train? It seems to happen regularly, and I expect that sleepers are
not cheap to replace, so why doesn't anyone seem to care if there is
smoke billowing up from the tracks?
Peter Shute